After three weeks and more than 1.2 million votes, State Farm® is pleased to announce Ruston’s Hope Center for Autism will receive a $25,000 grant to provide more help to those families working with autism. The local non profit was one of 3,000 cause submissions State Farm received through “Cause An Effect,” a population-sourced philanthropic initiative that relies on non profit organizations to create solutions to community issues.

State Farm officials credited Tiffany White of Ruston for leading the charge and coordinating the successful effort to win the grant.

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According to the arrest affidavit, Landon Maurice Askins, 30, and Diana Latesha Hampton, 25, both of 433 Fountain Drive No. 2 in Ruston, were arrested on Oct. 19 after a warrant was served on the residence.

Maj. Stephen Williams, spokesman for the LPSO, said Askins was apprehended during a traffic stop and brought back to his residence.

Southwestern Energy’s decision to enter into a contract to use water from the Sparta Aquifer to frack its wells has stirred controversy.

D’Arbonne Lake Watershed Commission president Steve Cagle said he is dumbfounded as to why Southwestern did not finalize a contract with the lake commission to use water from Lake D’Arbonne, which is a renewable and plentiful resource.

“I just can’t believe it,” Cagle said. “Sparta is already short of water, yet they’re going to sell it to Southwestern? It doesn’t make sense.”

Minden —Minden Medical Center has just received their sixth “A” grade in the Spring 2015 Hospital Safety Score, which rates how well hospitals protect patients from preventable medical errors, injuries and infections within the hospital. Minden Medical Center is the only hospital in North Louisiana to receive an A this year. The hospital is one of just 182 hospital in the nation to have earned “straight A’s” and the only hospital in Louisiana to receive straight A’s since this initiative began in 2012.

The Lincoln Parish Narcotics Enforcement Team and Grambling Police Department served warrants to two individuals on Wednesday.

Bobbie G. Pruitt, 56, of 148 Murline Street in Grambling, was reportedly arrested without incident on warrants for three counts of distribution of cocaine. Bond has been set at 44,750.

Yancy Yarnell Bradford, 21, of 387 South Pine Tree Road in Grambling, was arrested on warrants for two counts distribution of marijuana and two counts distribution of alprazolam, as well as for one count possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute (three pounds). Bond has been set at $66,760, with bond to be set on the last charge.